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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 4, Fable 11</span><span class="fp-text">LE VOLEUR QUI PILLE UN AUTEL</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber IV, Fabula XI</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">FUR <span class="fp-correction" title="ET LUCERNA  (orig.)"><span class="fp-difference">ARAM COMPILANS</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="ARAM COMPILANS  (texte subst.)"><span class="fp-difference">ET LUCERNA</span></span></span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un voleur alluma sa lampe à l'autel de Jupiter,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et pilla le temple à la lueur de cette lumière.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Comme il emportait son butin sacrilège,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">soudain le dieu s'écria du fond du sanctuaire&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Je te vois sans regret enlever des dons</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">qui m'avaient été offerts par des méchants.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Cependant, le jour de ton supplice est marqué,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et dès qu'il sera venu, ta vie expiera ton forfait.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Et pour que cette flamme, entretenue par la piété en l'honneur des dieux,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ne prête plus sa lumière à d'autres crimes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je veux qu'il soit désormais hors de l'atteinte des profanes.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">C'est pourquoi maintenant il n'est plus permis d'allumer une lampe aux autels,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ni de ranimer le feu sacré avec le feu des humains.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Lucernam fur accendit ex ara Jovis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ipsumque compilavit ad lumen suum.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Onustus qui sacrilegio cum discederet,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">repente vocem sanctam misit Religio&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Malorum quamvis ista fuerint munere</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">mihique invisa, ut non offendar subripi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">tamen, sceleste, spiritu culpam lues</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">olim cum adscriptus venerit <span class="fp-correction" title="poena  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">poenae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="poenae  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">poena</span></span> dies.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Sed ne ignis noster facinori praeluceat,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">per quem verendos excolit pietas deos,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">veto esse tale luminis commercium.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Itaque hodie nec lucernam de flamma deum</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">nec de lucerna fas est accendi sacrum.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Nul autre que l'auteur de cette fable</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ne peut expliquer tous les préceptes utiles qu'elle renferme.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Elle nous montre d'abord que ceux que nous avons élevés</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">deviennent souvent nos plus grands ennemis ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">ensuite, que la colère des dieux, pour punir les crimes,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">attend le terme marqué par le destin.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">En dernier lieu, elle défend aux gens de bien</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">d'avoir aucun rapport avec les méchants.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quod res contineat hoc argumentum utiles</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">non explicabit alius quam qui repperit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Significat primo saepe quos ipse alueris</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">tibi inveniri maxime contrarios ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">18&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">fatorum dicto sed puniri <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n119/mode/1up">p.56</a>]</span> tempore</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">19&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">secundum ostendit scelera, non ira deum.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">20&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Novissime interdicit ne cum malefico</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">21&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">usum bonus <span class="fp-correction" title="consotiet  (orig. avec f. d'orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">consociet</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="consociet  (f. d'orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">consotiet</span></span> ullius rei.</span></span></span></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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